America is filled with Europeans that immigrated there not that long ago really (apart from the native Americans) don’t forget your all speaking English invented in England(i didn’t say everybody speaks it just almost) , the American flag red white and blue they just happen to be the same colours as the union flag of Briton which your meant to be independent from , time that was invented in england why do you think time is always +or – Greenwich(in London) Mean Time

I do find it funny that Americans expect us to be bitter about the revolution. News flash: it was 200 years ago. No one in England gives a shit. It doesn’t even get mentioned in History lessons because, in the scheme of things, it didn’t make much difference to people in England. It was embarrassing for the government of the time, but that’s all.

Twice? i take it you are talking about World War I and II? Funny how that works, sit on the sidelines for a few decades, selling the weapons to both sides to keep the war going, then swooping in for the last couple of years when one side pisses you off and shouting ” We win!”

Thats true tim. but what you are forgetting is that this right here is a joke…. hey! you think people falling over is funny? well i think you are forgetting that some people really hurt themselves when they fall down!

yes it was
a language is a constantly evolving way of communicating, no one can claim to invent any of the main languages as they all evolved from a previous language: in fact western languages have links to Sanskrit – a sacred language of India.
If English is (defined as the) the language spoken by the english, it was made by the english.
The roots of the english language are as complex as the roots of the english. Danes, angles, saxons, normans and many more all immigrated to the uk.
And they all contributed to the shape of the english language today.
The english language spoken today is wildly different from the one spoken in the past, even after the immigration stopped.
Anyway the point is, the americans should not be afraid to say they have had a big influence on the english language (and should be proud of it), but it does rather rile the brits when you get patriotic about their language, when they’re such a new nation and the brits have been speaking it for centuries,
And it REALLY annoys them when americans forget the english speak english (“you speak really good english for a foreigner”) 😛

Also the evidence that we have all come from africa is monstruously weak, as is all evidence to do with ancient human history. A jaw bone can mean a new species!

That’s hilarious! Losing what would become the most powerful economy in the world didn’t bother the English. They gloss over it in history class because it IS an embarrassment.
England is like a kid who had his ball taken from him and walks off saying “Whatever, I didn’t want it anyways!”
Guess that’s why they came back in 1812, because of all the not bothering them.

this is a common misconception about america, that it is all it’s own…and in a sense it is by the face that it is made up of every race and culture. the same cannot be said about many other countries who are primarily solitary in their customs, culture and racial mix. I think people fail to remember this when thinking about america.

Australia prides itself on its multiculturalism? This is news to me, as here in Asia I can assure you Australian whites have a very bad reputation for being extremely racist towards Asians in particular.

Many people choose to go to Europe simply because it is too difficult to go to the US. Minorities are generally treated better in the US than they are in Western Europe, which is still largely considered with appeasing (on a democratic level) its majority class, the Whites.

France and England in particular have extremely negative race reputations here in Asia. English people are seen as being self-righteous and having racial pride. America also has a negative reputation, but 9/10 immigrants would prefer to move there than any European country. European governments are simply more accepting of immigrants than the US because immigrants may solve their declining population crisis.

The Americans I know are far more open-minded than is portrayed here (one of them absolutely loves this joke!) and detest their government even more than racist Europeans do. Still, you old dogs can’t learn new tricks so I don’t know why I’m wasting my breath on defending them.

You say Asia, but Asia’s a pretty big place. What on earth qualifies you to speak for all the nearly 4billion people that live there? I just find it laughable that you think because you live in one tiny part of this vast continent you think you are in tune with all the opinions there. For example, when I’ve travelled parts of East Asia (Japan, South Korea and China), I generally find people to have much higher opinions of Europe than the USA. But that’s not really significant because I’ve only ever met a tiny proportion of the entire population. Did you conduct a rigorous, accurate poll to establish your statistic of 90% or is it just a groundless, useless figure you pulled out of the top of your hat? Gee, I wonder which one. Furthermore there are many places in Europe that are far more tolerant than some places in the USA, and VICE VERSA. Generalisation never works, in fact calling all British people (NOT just English) self-righteous is akin to racism itself. I might as well just call all Americans fat, or other equally repugnant things. I hope I’ve made my point.

America hates immigrants just as much as any one else, we’re just too lazy to do anything about it. Trust me. And wasn’t Australia formed as a prison colony? Besides, hotdogs and fireworks is what we do. we steal stuff from other people, and make them way better. Like America itself, for example, stolen from the indians: made way better. Have you ever eaten ReAl Chinese food? Plain awful, but eaten in America, like Panda Express for example: simply amazing. Just admit it, America is the best, and you’re just jealous 🙂

Well there’s the thing – you said it yourself. There’s a whole spectrum going on in the UK, ranging from idiots who think they are still in colonial times fighting to keep England white, waving flags and trying to stop anyone else from getting into our green a pleasant land (ha!) – through to a vibrant modern culture and counterculture who is quite happy to embrace anyone and everyone – through to places in the UK where prejudices have reversed completely and it is the English who are suddenly coming up against the prejudices of other cultures and marginalized and made to feel out of place. In that sense, yes i think the UK is fairly ‘good’ when it comes to racism. At least it is trying. But of course, that wide spectrum remains. And America will be more or less the same Ii presume. There will be the idiots with the mindset that this cartoon is sending up and people who will relate to it completely – people filled with prejudice and patriotism and people who hate it and know that people are basically the same. Japan and other countries likewise (a friend of mine reported a sign in a Japanese apartment block reading something like ‘beware of bad foreigners’ – which would probably lead to a jail term in the UK!). It all comes down to not generalizing and trying to say “this country is X” because that is inevitably racist and nonsense. This cartoon is aiming at a specific mindset, not a specific country!

Oh and incidentally, having recently helped a friend go through the immigration process into the UK i can tell you it is NOT easy. It is a nightmare and a very degrading and even cruel process. Many tears were shed. America may also be a nightmare, but the UK is no revolving door. Myself, i would like to see all countries and borders abolished once and for all – but yes, that’s very likely isn’t it.

America is far from being a tolerant place. There are more racial slurs uttered here than anywhere else I’ve ever been. In America the Spanish are always going to be Mexicans, the blacks are always going to be “from the ghetto” or “bitter because of slavery” or worse yet “the reason for all the crime in our country”. Its ridiculous how much hate towards minorities there is in America.

Or the blacks are always going to be “the blacks”. But really, how many people find this offensive? And actually, a large number of Hispanics in America ARE Mexican. And on top of that, what you’re calling minorities aren’t even really minorities anymore. The number of Hispanic people and African-Americans are rising and in some places are far more than the number of Caucasian people. The point is, in this case, we can’t be totally PC all the time with everything. But if we just call black people black, white people white, and hispanic people hispanic, who really cares?

Generalizations are just really no good… They’re kind of ridiculous. Because America isn’t intolerant. It’s true, there are a number of people in America who can be intolerant, but we’re usually pretty accepting. And I’m sure the same goes for most – maybe not all, but most – other countries.

You can’t judge America by Fox News and their celebrities. I’m from southern Ontario, so I get a lot of American televison (and thus news stations), and really they’re the same as Canada, except Bill O’Reilley and his cult.

yeah, i’m just gonna stick my neck in there for australians.. coz this comment was mainly about australia, and people kept going on about the UK, Asia and the USA. the racist australian male is just a cliche’d thing. we dont pride ourselves on that, and that is only the minority, when the second world war took place, we had many people suffer, and there was lots of publication about how bad the rest of the world is, some people took these racist articles seriously, and some people just hoped that the world war would end. in turn these ideas got passed down hereditory and we have a small amount of people (eg. Pauline Hanson, politician) who think that mixing cultures is a bad thing, but most of australia, (yes i know i can’t speak on behalf of all australians, but i can speak on behalf of australia, the country) thinks that the world would be a better place if everryone was friends with eachother.. and to the person who’s comment would be directly below mine, technically the british killed off most of the aboriginal race, when they first came here, when australia became a commonwealth, the govornment wanted to apologize for everything, but the times were not right until our current primeminister took a stand and said “sorry”. and yet, they think sorry is not enough, so we try to put families back together, thats still not enough. how bout trying to get britain to apologize for sending white man here! I go to a school who tries to keep equality here, we have many students from outside australia, and they are not ridiculed. i have many friends from many different countries, and I myself am half asian. so i dont think people could say that australia is not very multicultural, because i have been around australia, and i can tell that most of the population agrees on multiculturalism, and i have been outside australia to other countries, and met people who think that my family are quite nice, now i know this is just me, but i can sort of tell that most other australians/australasians/other cultures that live in australia, have the same ideas as me.. and i dont really know how to finish a lecture/comment.. so i’m gonna say… THE END

I have a good friend who’s of mixed Korean descent (white father who abandoned her Korean birth mother) who was adopted by a white Australian family. She faced racism from her white Australian “countrymen” on a literally daily basis, everything from people being ridiculously shocked that she spoke English so well to people screaming at her to “go home,” along with pretty much every other sort of racist bullshit non-white people put up with in predominantly-white cultures.

And I once had a white Australian claim, in a different discussion we were having about the relative (de)merits of America, Europe and Australia wrt race relations, that (white) Australia’s treatment of indigenous Australians/Aborigines didn’t count /because/ they were basically extinct.

It was under the independent Australian government, not the British colonial government, that hunting licences to shoot and kill indigenous Australian people like game animals were available during my lifetime.

And more recently — quite recently, indeed — there have been those charming anti-immigrant riots by “white” Australians against the presence of immigrants from southern Europe and parts of western Asia who are themselves, by most definitions, also white… just not white enough for certain overly-Aryan Australians, apparently. Wait, “charming” isn’t the right word, what’s the word I mean? Oh, of course — I meant “violent.”

There isn’t a crisis with decreasing population in the UK, we have lots of immigrants coming over here to start a new life. This increases our population. France, on the other hand, doesn’t really seem to want them.

Lol Aussies have a bad image to Asians? I honestly think you haven’t actually spoken to an Aussie ever.

I live in Australia and around 70% of my friends are Asian. When I go to parties I’m usually one of the only white guys there and I’m the one who people are racist towards (But in a friendly way like ‘Who can outdrink the white boy’ or ‘Something heavy needs moving. Grab the white guy’)

I’d like to point out that not all racism is evil and mallicious. Some are just true and kind of funny.

As an example, my asian friends laugh at how tall my white friends are and how much they can drink/eat, my white friends refuse to play my asian friends in card games because they always get beaten horribly, white friends always laugh at how they can’t go to an asian friends house without getting offered food every 20 minutes, asian friends use the old “White boy can’t jump/white boy can’t dance” line, my white guy friends think asian girls are hotter than white girls etc.
My asian friends say all white guys are programmers and we reply that they are all accountants.
They are all racist generalisations, but there’s a difference between jokes between friends and malicious racism.

I think pretty much any country created out of imperialism and colonialism can now claim multiculturalism as the dominant societies of those countries were wiped out which made room for a new culture and lots of immigrants

It’s just that Canada has become so multicultural that many question the existence of Canadian culture. Besides the love for ice hockey, Canadian bacon, and maple syrup, there isn’t much that is uniquely Canadian.

And, prior to the arrival of the Vikings and Europeans we had First Nations peoples who had a structured political organisation, philosophies, religious diversity, deep knowledge of the land, animals and a vast cultural diversity. Once the white folks arrived, they brought lethal diseases, killing machines that were just too efficient, poor diet and that rapacious creditor, alcohol.

wait wait wai. are you really having a political debate about which country is most open to minorities in the comments section of a comic? wow. this may actually up the odds of me going around the world painting the map lines in since everyone seems to think they are there anyway.

Well, if we’re gonna get technical, the Americas is the collective term for the two continents of North and South America. The United States of America is arguably misnamed as a country and collection of states, as truthfully, the USA is not a collection of states, but of nations that answer to a federal government. Nation by definition is a group that share a common culture, but require neither territory nor sovereignity. These nations were once states, but as they retain no sovereignity, are no longer “states” as per original definition. They are under a federal constitution, which does, I suppose, class the USA as a nation also. It is extremely confusing to name country, state and nation, as the meanings have been construed and misconstrued many many times throughout history.

That’s not true, south americans call it simply “Estados Unidos” (United States). Not Estados unidos de America or America either.
For south americans América is the whole continent that is divided in North America, Central America an South America.

America is a country, North America is a continent. B/c if you say america it would be vague being that there’s a North and South America that being said…it’s America aka United States the country. ; P

The USA (america can mean northern or southern, very different cultures and still not specific to the country) Is a mixing pot, makes sense for there to be multi-cultural facets included in our traditions.

A little late here, but in all honesty do you think that will EVER happen? Now I’ve done no research nor have any prior knowledge on this matter but has there been in the past ANY large movement to unite the countries in South America under a single federal government? I honestly don’t think there will be. To say so myself, I would think a union of multiple countries under a single federal government would just complicate things. Look at the U.S. now compared to the governments of other (well developed) countries. Typically their governments are BETTER because they don’t have to deal with such a vast spread of land and people. It’s HARD to govern a big country, and FAR easier to govern a small one. Why do you think ancient Romans kept to small city-states?

The USA is a country in the Americas, Argentina has as much right to say it is America as has the USA. The USA is not even North America as there are two other countries on that bit of the continent of America. I use the term USAnian to describe a native of the USA and would recommend it ot others. None of this is to say anything against the USA, merely to try to avoid insul;ting other Americans: Chileans, Uruguayans. Venezuelans, Panamanians, etc.

I think the kid should get beat up in the end because of snarkiness, not treason. Yeah, there’s all kinds of “American” traditions which weren’t _invented_ here. But it’s false to say that a nation’s culture is composed of things that _originated_ there, and _especially_ false to say that about the country that most symbolizes a cultural “melting pot.” Pretty much the whole frickin’ point of the US is that we’re a culture composed of many cultures.

I know, I know. Quit nitpicking the funny. But to me the gag is that the kid is “smarter” than the father, and that falls flat when the kid is missing the point.

I love how everyone is whining about how America refers to the continent and it’s incorrect to use the term to refer to the USA
sorry folks you may be right but the USA has hijacked the word America and American and in every corner of the globe if you mutter the word America I can assure you they won´t be thinking about Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Chile or any other country on either of the American continents (let alone the American tectonic plates)

the term “American” comes from a shortening of United States of America. the USA is largely known as “America” throughout the world, thus it is an acceptable term to describe it and thus the people who are native to the country, myself included, can be called Americans. Technically it is a misnomer as there is a North, South, and Central America (though only North and South are continents), and any person from any country therein could claim to be America. the REALITY, however, is that people from all over the world use the term America to refer to the USA. In Japan, for instance, they never use the term “USA” and simply call it アメリカ (amerika) and the people therein as アメリカ人 (amerikajin, american person basically)

A lot of the claims that gunpowder and fireworks came from China are being reexamined and found to be bogus. The first reliable mention of gunpowder comes from 12th century Europe, and it was not mentioned by Marco Polo in his writings some years later.

welcome to the UFO club.. where we can question if atlantis is real (which it is) or whether there really was a city of gold in america (note america meaning the continents.. which there is no city of gold) and we can also wonder whether crop circles were made by extra terrestrials, or just by farmers wanting to get rich

you know what? You all should try Portugal we were just the tiny motherf*****s who discovered half the world so… One more thing about that asian guy speaking about the us more open minded then europe isnt racism seen in, hmm let me check oh right, every other country on earth??

nice, you guys also discovered australia first but thought it was too desert like, and left, leaving a boat behind which is now lost forever but stories about the boat still float around (haha i made a joke) umm.. yes, cool… THE END.. again

The US is a young country and it deserves some room to develop it’s culture because like it or not it is the World’s power would you rather have the N.Koreans or Iranians running the show?.Please people,do some research..Einstein was German and even if Jewish at birth it is a faith not a race,When Einstein was asked about his own beliefs he replied he had a “cosmic religious sense,” which knows
“no dogmas and no God made in man’s image,”

America is the best. We have nukes. We won the Cold War. We are a superpower. We can destroy EVERY LAST ONE of you. Also, you’re arguing on the internet on a WEB COMIC!!! Basically, you are all mindless people with nothing better to do. Yes, I know I just became one of you. In fact, I’m dreading it just sitting here thinking about it. All-in-all, this pathetic blather disgusts me. Grow up. IT’S A COMIC!

I’m sure that some of these comments are sardonic, sarcastic, and carrying deliberately bad grammar with the intent of purveying some kind of comedic intent. I just can’t differentiate them from the lame-ass pseudo-patriotic posturing being trotted out here by idiots with no basic grasp of language, grammer [sic], history, socio-political intercourse or, indeed, where their penises are at.

Actually the English killed both aboriginals and indians.Because the Dutch discovered Australia and then the British went to Australia and killed most of the aboriginals.But also The Dutch have discovered Manhattan And then traded that for Surinam with the English.English killed Indians.Babaaaaaaam!

The hidden comic was hilarious. I don’t think anyone mentioned that but I’ll be honest and confess I didn’t read all the comments. Maybe someone did mention it and I just didn’t see.

For some reason I didn’t expect there to be so much arguing in the comments but this is probably my second favorite argument-through-comments on the internet because I saw UFO in there somewhere. (My first being an argument in youtube comments about whether or not towels should be washed after one shower or hung up and used repeatedly. There was no towel scene in the video.)